KASHMIR: PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday claimed that section 144 was imposed in Pulwama, which will go to polls on May 13, in order to sabotage it. Mehbooba Mufti also alleged that the local administration has also detained her party workers.

"Section 144 has been imposed in Pulwama district, which is unprecedented. It has not happened before. Restrictions are imposed where the elections are to take place and that too till the time of the conclusion of polls," Mufti said while addressing a presser in Srinagar.

Mufti also accused that the local administration is trying to repeat the 1987 elections, which were allegedly rigged and considered the trigger for violence in the valley.

Meanwhile, officials said the imposition of Section 144 in Pulwama was only a routine order aimed at maintaining law and order in the district.

Pulwama is part of the Anantnag-Rajauri Lok Sabha seat where Mufti is contesting a tough triangular fight against National Conference's Mian Altaf and Apni Party's Zafar Iqbal Manhas.